Saturday, August 25, 2012

Teaching Colors- Part 1: Red/Orange/Yellow

Colors, colors, colors is the name of the game when school starts!!

For the first full week of school, we always teach about colors. While most of the children can recognize the colors when they see them, many cannot recognize the color names when seen. So our kindergarten team decided to teach two colors a day (with the exception of one color, done by itself on the first day of school). We teach the colors in rainbow order---mostly due to my teammates being OCD and needing to following the Roy G. Biv pattern! :)

So this is our schedule for teaching colors:

Friday (the first day of school)- Red

Monday- Orange/ Yellow

Tuesday- Green/ Blue

Wednesday- Purple/ Pink

Thursday- White/ Gray

Friday- Black/ Brown

Next week will be color review days in the morning and nursery rhyme activities in the afternoon.

So, here's what I did (last Friday) and this week! I kept a pretty consistent pattern with what I did for each color. It looked something like this--

Scramble up the color word

Students guess the color word/ then I write the color word correctly with their help

Generate ideas of objects that are red

Listen to the color song by Frog Street Press. (Click here to see all of the words to the songs we use with all of the colors.) We sing the song multiple times.

Read a book related to the color

Do a craft dealing with the color

If available, eat a food that is the color

Now that you have seen the order in which I followed with each color, I will now show you the book we read and the craft we did with color, since that was the main part that changed every time! I think the crafts turned out soooo cute!!!

2 comments:

I made this to help teach colors in my classroom and thought I'd share. It's a short book for the ipad and at the end you can download multiple worksheets for various preK-first grade students. https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/book-of-colors/id636358480?